• 청정기술
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.96-101
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• 2020

이 논문에서는 3세대 바이오매스 중 거대조류, 즉 해조류 바이오매스로부터 유래된 바이오가스를 연료로 사용하여 열, 전력 및 수소를 생산하는 삼중발전의 타당성 평가를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 3 MW급 고체산화물 연료전지와 가스터빈, 그리고 유기 랭킨 사이클로 이루어진 상용 규모의 열, 전력 및 수소 생산공정을 공정모사기를 사용하여 설계, 모사하였고, 공정모사로 부터 얻은 열 및 물질 수지를 통해 각 단위조작 장치의 가격을 추정하고 경제성을 분석하였다. 수소를 생산하기 위해 고체산화물 연료전지의 설계를 수정하였는데, 연료전지 내 애프터-버너를 제거하고 수성-가스 전환 반응기를 추가하였다. 공정모사 결과 설계된 삼중발전 공정은 시간당 3.47톤의 건조 갈조류 원료로부터 생산된 2톤의 바이오가스를 이용하여 2.3 MW의 전력과 50 kg hr^-1의 수소를 37%의 효율로 생산한다. 이 결과를 토대로 가장 현실적인 시나리오에 대해 경제적으로 평가하고 BESP (breakeven electricity selling price)를 계산하였는데, ¢10.45 kWh^-1로 기존의 고정 발전 대비 동등 이상의 수준으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.1471-1479
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• 2015

A major portion of the capital costs in the present day power transmission systems are due to the cost of equipment and construction process. Transmission utilities in the recent years are drawing greater attention towards performing life cycle costing studies for cost management and decision making. However, the data involved in these studies are highly uncertain and the effect of these uncertainties cannot be directly included in the study process, resulting in inaccurate solutions. Interval mathematics provides a method for including these uncertainties throughout the cost analysis and provides final solution range in the form of intervals. In this regard, it is essential and extremely important that significant research has to be carried out in understanding the principles of life cycle costing methodology and its applicability to cost analysis of transmission lines along with uncertainties involved in the cost assessment process. In this paper, economic analysis of power transmission lines using interval mathematics has been studied. Life cycle costing studies are performed using net present value analysis on a range transmission lines used in India and the results are analyzed. A cost break even analysis considering right of way costs was carried out to determine the point of economy indifference.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 1987

In order to improve the traditional post harvest system in Korea, a model for mechanized rice drying and storage system was developed and introduced as the first part of the study(Park, 1986). As the second part of the study, capital requirement and cost of the model system was analyzed. Also, optimum size of the model system was estimated by comparing with the traditional harvest system. From the study, the following results can be concluded: 1. The capital requirement of the model system decreases as the model size increases. For example, a model system having 500 ton storage capacity requires 439,000 Won/ton. However it requires 313,200 Won/ton only, if the model size increases to 1000 ton. 2. Also, total cost of the model system decreases as the model size increases. For example, total costs of the model system having 500 ton and 1000 ton storage capacity are 101,208 Won/ton and 69,320 Won/ton, respectively. 3. The breakeven point (optimum size) of the model can be estimated around 630 ton storage capacity if the operation rate is assumed as 100%. However, the optimum size of the model is 710 ton, if the operation rate it assumed 80%.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2000

Feasibility of the self-TMR mixing/feeding system for dairy farm in Korea was analyzed by comparing with a traditional feeding system. The total operating cost of self-TMR feeding system decreased with an increase of farm size. However, the cost was higher than that of traditional feeding system because of its high purchasing cost of TMR mixer as an initial investment. Profit per unit input of the TMR feeding system became greater over the traditional system when the farm size is larger than 17 heads due to more and better milk production. The profitable discrepancy became bigger as dairy farm size increases.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.107-120
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• 2010

In today's uncertain economic environment, the evaluation of safety for investment alternatives is of practical importance in manufacturing companies. This paper examines a method of quantitatively evaluating profitability and risk for multiple alternatives using the total-cost unit-cost domain. The paper assumes such factors as unit sales price, sales and production volume, unit variable cost, fixed cost, and yield for each alternative. The paper incorporates the relationship between production capacity and demand, distinguishing between cases of production capacity surplus and shortage for each year over the entire planning horizon. The paper investigates the case in which the values of each factor independently move in the direction of decreasing profit each year, and clarifies the procedure of comparing safety among multiple investment alternatives on a single consolidated total-cost unit-cost domain. The difficulty of the problem lies in the method of consolidating multiple total-cost unit-cost domains into a single domain since the combination of years of capacity surplus and shortage depends upon the change values in each factor under consideration. A systematic method of evaluating profitability as well as risk is presented, and the validity of the proposed method is verified using a numerical example.